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Even though inauguration is on Monday, April 16th, we’re all busy meeting with people around campus to get us started with our initiatives. It’s awesome to see so many administrators that are student advocates.

On Friday, I got to meet with Barbara Rea who is the coordinator for the Assembly Series. She’s responsible for the fantastic speakers we get on a weekly basis. We talked about changing the Assembly Series time from 11AM on Wednesday (when a ton of people have classes and conflicts) to something around 4 or 5PM on Tuesday or Thursday.

Marius and I also emphasized our desire for nationally recognized speakers on campus. In the past year, SU helped student groups and Assembly Series to the tune of $100,000. In creating our budget this year, we will have a heavy focus on speakers, specifically the time of day and the name recognition of the speaker.

We look forward to bringing you all invigorating speakers at great times next year!

After that fun-tastic meeting, I had the opportunity to meet with Jeff Nelson to help plan things that SU would do for orientation. Freshman are full of great ideas and we would love to have them on board with SU (and SU groups) early on. CS40 does a great job of getting freshman involved ASAP and SU should follow their lead.

Jeff Nelson is also an upcomer in SU. He’s a Senator and involved in tons of facets on campus (WUTV, Orientation, SU, Tour Guide). Look for great things from him.

After this meeting, the Execs got to sit in on a meeting with a bunch of assistant Vice-Chancellors from around campus. It was a meet and greet in the OSA office and we got to chat about our approach to our goals next year, specifically fitness facilities, nationally recognized speakers, and technology (wireless internet, anyone).

These administrators (Dean Carroll, Dean Carnaghi, Dean McLeod, Dean Koff, Dean Coburn) are full-time advocates for us and let us know about the processes and intricacies for doing things around campus (AKA the politics of change). We are excited to be working with these people and can’t wait to have indepth conversations.

That’s all for Friday folks!

Neil

P.S. I also went to a WUnderground meeting at 5PM in the Gregg lobby. They’re the satire paper on campus and write some great stuff. Be sure to keep an eye out for them and write for them if you like what you see.

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